Bad news, hungry hip-hop fans. As many of you speculated, Bon Rappetite, the world's first rap themed eatery, does not actually exist. The gloriously pun-filled website Bon-Rappetite.com is currently the closest you will get to such dishes as the Waka Flocka Flambe . That's right, if you can stop thinking about the Talib Quali-i you'll have to make it for yourself. But take heart, because the people behind the site feel your pain. “I wish it were real” says Everett Steele a web designer and one of the co-creators of Bon-Rappetite.com. The hip-hop fan and Atlien (that's Atlantan to the uninitiated) adds, “I have no desire to be a restaurateur but Ludacris, if you are listening, Usher, Drake come down to Atlanta, give me whatever is in that case or what you keep in that room and I will build a restaurant around it.” Click to listen to the CNN Radio podcast: Steele says that the site started as a joke, a collection of puns written on a bar napkin. “Our company really enjoys fun with technology and the internet,” he explains – almost as much as they like puns involving rappers. So Baby Robot Industries , co-founded by Everett and his wife Bunny Mcintosh , decided to take the puns from the napkin to the net. “We emailed it to like ten people” he says. A year later a couple of local Atlanta outlets took notice. Now Steele finds himself fielding questions from national media including a mention in the food magazine Bon Appetit . The site has received tens of thousands of hits and spent the better part of one recent morning down due to high traffic volume. Steele chuckles at the sudden attention but he gets the appeal, everyone loves puns, he says. Best of all, he loves that people now share their own menu items like: Gucci Mane Lobster and A Tribe Called Quesadilla . All jokes aside, Steele does seem a little bothered by assumptions that the site is little more than a marketing ploy. The company, Baby Robot Industries has not gotten any gigs as a result he says. But, he adds, if you find yourself unable to quell a craving for some real Bon Rappetite in your life they will have t-shirts for sale soon replete with a logo that he says “looks almost like a real restaurant.” Click to listen to the CNN Radio podcast:

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Paula Deen announced Tuesday that she has Type 2 Diabetes — a diagnosis she received three years ago — and will be a spokeswoman for a treatment plan created by a pharmaceutical company. Anthony Bourdain , who has never been a fan of the Southern TV chef, criticized the timing of these two announcements. The “No Reservations” host told Eater, “When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you’ve been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you’ve got Type 2 Diabetes … it’s in bad taste if nothing else.” He then tweeted a thinly veiled criticism of Deen: “Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.” (@ NoReservations ; TMZ ; Eater ) Read full article > >

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Files just released by the National Archives show Margaret Thatcher took part in negotiations with the IRA during the 1981 Hunger Strikes, BBC investigative journalist Peter Taylor says.

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Peter Robinson believed a war could break out over the IRA murder of a unionist politician, government archives from 1981 reveal.

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More than a warehouse for the poor, Dharavi, a Mumbai slum, contains a hive of workshops with an annual economic output of more than $600 million.

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On a farm on the outskirts of Frederick, Kelly Rausch and Adam Finkelstein crack open a wooden beehive whose design dates to the 19th century. Inside, they point out a superbee they have made for the 21st century. In two months, the carefully bred queen bee has built a large, productive colony that knows how to cluster against the cold and fill the winter larder with honey. Read full article > >

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In the few years I’ve been downloading food-related apps, I’ve watched them develop from mere recipe archives and grocery-aisle guides to fully interactive media experiences that — dare I say it — outshine the printed page. I still take pleasure in opening a food-stained cookbook; I’m just happy to have greater access at my fingertips. Read full article > >

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A multimedia archive of life in the UK in the 1980s and the modern day is put on display at the National Museum of Computing.

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The number of new cases of HIV in Northern Ireland rises by 20%, according to the Public Health Agency.

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Number of new HIV cases up 20%

The future of influential D.C. post-hard-core band Fugazi is uncertain. They haven’t performed together since 2002 and have no specific plans to do so again. But the band’s past is now just a mouse click away. On Thursday, the Dischord label launches the Fugazi Live Series , a Web site that will offer more than 800 of the band’s live recordings. It’s a daunting archive, but each show should sound unique — according to singer-guitarist and Dischord co-founder Ian MacKaye, the quartet was always about the moment. “We weren’t trying to put on an act. We played as we were,” he said. “If we were happy, we played happy. If we were frustrated, we played frustrated.” Read full article > >

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As UK experts call for universal HIV testing in a bid to reduce infections, latest figures reveal a fifth offered the test refuse to have it.

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The arrival of HIV/Aids in the early 1980s led to predictions of deaths on a massive scale – yet developed countries avoided the such a fate. What did awareness campaigns get right?

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The Louis Armstrong museum and archive, which has plans to expand, received a donation of items from the estate of a major collector.

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Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe. From the masterminds that brought you the ” laughing women eating salad ” meme, we present “women struggling to drink water.” – The Hairpin John Besh lays down the law when it comes to fishy offenses. – Food & Wine Dining out alone? There's an app for that. – Washington Post Dippin' Dots, the “ice cream of the future,” may soon be the “ice cream of the past” as it files for bankruptcy protection. – Wall Street Journal Napoleon complex and your morning coffee: what the size of your coffee cup says about you. – The Atlantic

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He was the only one-term American president in the past three decades, but plenty happened on his watch: the collapse of communism, the first Gulf War and a recession that helped usher him out of office. Now, George H.W. Bush’s presidency is revealed in greater detail, as the University of Virginia’s Miller Center opens its archive of oral history interviews about the 41st president, including conversations with Dick Cheney, James Baker, Robert Gates and Dan Quayle. Read full article > >

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Clint Eastwood for veep in 1988? An oral history of George H.W. Bush’s presidency.